Finding the length of an mp3 file

Question

So i have the code:

import glob,os
import random


path = \'C:\\\\Music\\\\\'
aw=[]
for infile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path,\'*.mp3\') ):
    libr = infil         


        

Answer 1

You can also get this using eyed3, if that's your flavor by doing:

import eyed3
duration = eyed3.load('path_to_your_file.mp3').info.time_secs

Note however that this uses sampling to determine the length of the track. As a result, if it uses variable bit rate, the samples may not be representative of the whole, and the estimate may be off by a good degree (I've seen these estimates be off by more than 30% on court recordings).

I'm not sure that's much worse than other options, but it's something to remember if you have variable bit rates.